Cranium vs Symptom & Mood Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cranium
Easily log headache attacks, symptoms, and medication use. Generate clear reports to identify triggers and discuss with your doctor. Integrates with Health app for menstrual cycle correlation.
- Quick attack logging
- Symptom and trigger tracking
- Medication tracking
- Doctor-shareable reports
- Menstrual cycle correlation
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Tracking attacks is quick and easy. Record ongoing attack in just 2 taps. Get clean and comprehensible reports about most frequent headache triggers and symptoms to share with your doctor. Track how much medication you take. Use data about your menstruation cycle from Health app to see how it correlates with you headache.
Symptom & Mood Tracker
Easily record your mood, symptoms, triggers, and treatments. Identify patterns, analyze statistics, and generate PDF reports to share with your doctor. Customize the tracker to fit your personal health needs.
- Record mood, symptoms, treatments, triggers
- Write notes and view summaries
- Analyze statistics and identify patterns
- Generate PDF reports for doctors
- Customize symptoms, triggers, and treatments
- Privacy-focused, data stored locally
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Symptom & Mood Tracker+ is the ideal tool to track your mood, symptoms, triggers and treatments. With just a few taps, you can easily record all the details of your symptoms and obtain a clear summary of how you're doing. Features: - Record your mood, symptoms, treatments, and triggers with just a few taps - Write notes and easily see an overview of how you're doing - Identify changing patterns and analyze your statistics over time - Generate PDF reports to share with your doctor - Customize your tracker by creating or editing symptoms, triggers and treatments to fit your needs. Additionally, you can customize the app by creating or modifying symptoms, treatments, and triggers to meet your specific requirements. The app also allows you to take notes about your experiences and analyze your statistics over time to recognize changing patterns. The Symptom & Mood Tracker+ app respects your privacy as your journal entries are only accessible on your device. If you want to share your data with your doctor, the app allows you to generate a printable report that you can bring to your next appointment. Please note that this app is not a replacement for medical treatment and is intended for informational purposes only. If you are experiencing any symptoms of an illness, please consult with your doctor. Symptom & Mood Tracker+ comes with no warranty, but we are committed to helping you take control of your symptoms and feel better. Privacy: https://mood.ardasen.com/privacy.html Terms: https://mood.ardasen.com/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cranium at none against Symptom & Mood Tracker's 2. Cranium also leads on ratings volume (164 vs 6). Symptom & Mood Tracker's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Symptom & Mood Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Cranium asks for nothing beyond the download.
Symptom & Mood Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cranium has 164 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Cranium ships an update every 5 months, Symptom & Mood Tracker every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cranium | Symptom & Mood Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (164 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 164 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Elena Zhalina | Arda Sen |
Customer experience
Cranium
Symptom & Mood Tracker
In-app purchases
Cranium
No in-app purchases
Symptom & Mood Tracker
- Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription3 Days trial$29.991 Year
